A MUM is fighting for her life after a happy family celebration turned to horror when she was crushed in a freak accident.

Kathleen Sunley, of Grangetown, was visiting family in Scotland when the nightmare ordeal happened.

The 56-year-old was staying in her sister’s static caravan in Dunoon when high winds - up to 100mph - picked up a neighbouring mobile home and smashed it into their own.

Kathleen remains in intensive care after suffering severe injuries including two punctured lungs.

Eight family members - including Kathleen’s husband Thomas, 54, daughter Sharon Mulligan, 30, and grandson Kieran Renton, eight, all from Teesside - were in the caravan.

Her sister, Ann McMillan, 58 - originally from South Bank - was in the living room early in the morning and saw the scene unfold.

She said: “I could hear the wind getting up and I watched this caravan fly through the sky and I covered my head over with the quilt. I was getting hit with debris.

“I did not know whether I was dead or alive.”

The caravan also “bounced” off their cars.

Uninjured Ann, who left Teesside at 19 for Greenock, Scotland, said: “There was no roof, no walls. The caravan had flown over us and landed on the bedrooms and that’s where Kathleen was.”

Kathleen, a mum-of-five and gran-of-seven, sustained multiple serious injuries. The carer for Briarwood Nursing Home, in Eston, was trapped beneath the rubble.

Ann’s husband Joe, who suffered three fractures to his back, was asleep and said: “I woke up with a wall on top of me. I was trapped between the wall and the bedstead. The side of the caravan blew off so I managed to get out.”

Thomas, a redundant steelworker, also scrambled free with only bruising. The two men then battled to release Kathleen.

Joe, 59, said: “Me and Thomas tried to pull stuff off her but it was just too much. I was no good but I did not realise that I had broken my back and it was painful.”

Meanwhile, Ann’s daughter Susan McNab, 38, of Greenock, threw herself over son Jack, six, and Kieran, saving them from harm.

Two fire engines, five ambulances and an air ambulance arrived at Stratheck Holiday Park, Dunoon following the incident, at around 8am on January 3.

Firefighters released Kathleen and she was airlifted to the Royal Alexandra Hospital, in Paisley, with Sharon, who had a badly bruised face. Sharon is now back home.

Joe spent a week in hospital but Kathleen remains in intensive care.

She suffered a broken collar bone, shoulder, pelvis, back and sternum and two punctured lungs.

The mum to Trevor, 35, Sharon, 30, Joanne, 27, Shaun, 25, and Jennifer, 23, is on a ventilator and is heavily sedated.

Jennifer, a mum to Lilly Chard, one, and Reece Chard, two, of South Bank, said: “It knocked me sick to see her. I don’t want her to die. I won’t have no one because my dad’s already dead.